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The result was delete‎. ✗plicit 14:36, 10 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

List of current mayors in Oklahoma[edit]

List of current mayors in Oklahoma (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log | edits since nomination)

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Per past discussions on things like Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of mayors in Alberta and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of council leaders in the United Kingdom, we have a longstanding consensus to avoid "current incumbency" lists like this due to maintainability problems.
Obviously it would be major national news if the mayors of Oklahoma City or Tulsa were to resign from office or die next month, so a lot of Wikipedia editors would be on top of it quite promptly in the event of a change -- but these types of lists consistently reflect a pattern of missing the boat when it comes to the smaller towns toward the bottom of the list, because we're much more likely to not notice the news of a small-town mayoral change and thus not update the list in a timely manner.
A list such as List of mayors of the 50 largest cities in the United States can be constrained to a defined set of the most nationally prominent big-city mayors who pass or are likely to pass NPOL -- but they're discouraged at the state level, because for the smaller towns and cities we simply can't guarantee the ability to stay on top of any updates necessary to keep the list up to date. Bearcat (talk) 14:20, 3 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Politics and Oklahoma. Bearcat (talk) 14:20, 3 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 14:32, 3 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete List of mostly non-notable small-town politicians, failing WP:NPOL and WP:LISTN. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 14:34, 3 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete for above reasons. Elshad (talk) 14:39, 3 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep I made this article believing that it adheres to Wikipedia policies regarding lists and notability. A lot of these politicians have large constituency sizes (the top 10 of Oklahoma cities for example). I think pruning the article and only keeping the top ten largest cities in Oklahoma would be a better choice then deletion.--Trey Wainman (talk) 18:18, 3 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment: Narrowing the list to something like top 10 or over 50,000 residents may help narrow the scope of the list. Also, the updating/maintenance issue can be helped by including the last and next election date so editors can tell when it needs updating. Some form of this page is probably both notable and maintainable. TulsaPoliticsFan (talk) 17:03, 6 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per nom - we don't traditionally host these sorts of things for currency reasons. SportingFlyer T·C 19:04, 9 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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